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AI interaction · Tangible experience

Printed
Fate.

A question. A ritual.
Something to take with you.

An interactive installation that brings Chinese divination traditions into conversation with AI, light, and a printed keepsake.

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The Printed Fate installation glows blue, with three coins mounted in a sculpted wave-like display.
A physical ritual, translated into an interactive object.
Project
Capstone exploration
Practice
Interaction design & creative technology
Made with
OpenAI API, Voiceflow, TouchDesigner, Fusion 360 & digital fabrication

01 / The idea

What do we bring
to a question of fate?

Printed Fate grew from my interest in how people use rituals to navigate uncertainty. Drawing on Wuxing, Bagua, and the I Ching, I explored a contemporary experience around an ancient practice: asking a question, casting coins, and interpreting a response.

The project invites curiosity about choice and destiny. An AI conversation becomes one part of that experience, alongside the pace of the ritual, the atmosphere of the room, and an object to keep.

02 / The interaction

One ritual.
Two ways to enter.

I designed a physical installation and a web experience around a shared sequence. Visitors bring a question, cast three coins six times, and receive an interpretation connected to the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams.

01 / Reflect

Bring a question

A conversational entry point makes space for what is on the visitor’s mind.

02 / Participate

Cast the coins

Physical or virtual coins turn chance into a sequence of six lines.

03 / Interpret

Receive a reading

The AI conversation connects the question with the resulting hexagram.

Experience framework / physical and digital pathways

A hand-drawn experience map connects questions, coin casting, AI interpretation, lighting, and a printed result in a bottle.
The original experience map, tracing both the installation and website journeys.

The digital layer

Give the conversation
a sense of ceremony.

The interface begins with a quiet invitation to pause and formulate a question. A conversational guide then accompanies the coin-casting sequence and reading. The interaction unfolds through a series of steps, giving each moment its own space.

A deep-blue interface invites the visitor to meditate and consider a question.
01 — Pause and consider a question.
The Printed Fate conversational guide invites the visitor to begin a dialogue.
02 — Begin the conversation.
Virtual coins, a conversational reading, and a six-line result appear together in the web interface.
03 — Cast the coins and explore the reading.

Connecting the dialogue

I prototyped the conversational flow in Voiceflow and used the OpenAI Assistants API for the AI layer. The flow links the visitor’s question and coin-casting sequence to a generated interpretation.

The surrounding interaction gives the generated text a context: an invitation, an action, a response, and a moment to reflect.

A Voiceflow canvas shows connected blocks for the conversational interaction.
The conversational prototype in Voiceflow.

03 / The making

From a digital reading
to a physical presence.

I developed the installation through sketches, 3D modeling, laser-cut layers, and assembly tests. Three coin forms sit within a flowing silhouette, bringing the central gesture of the ritual into the object itself.

A Fusion 360 model shows the layered installation, three coin forms, and a rectangular base.
Modeling the structure and 3D-printed components in Fusion 360.
An Illustrator drawing shows closely spaced curved lines and a circular Bagua motif.
Preparing the layered silhouette for laser cutting in Illustrator.
A hand holds the assembled pale wave-like structure above its wooden base during a light test.
Assembly and lighting tests reveal how the layered form catches light.
The finished installation glows blue above its base in a dark exhibition setting.
The fabricated object in its final lighting environment.

04 / The experience

Let the result
leave the screen.

TouchDesigner visuals and DMX lighting extend the experience into the room. The physical journey concludes with a reading on paper, placed in a glass bottle that can be opened immediately or saved for later.

A laptop and a projection show luminous abstract visuals for Printed Fate.
The digital experience within the installation setting.
A laptop shows the virtual coin interaction and an AI-generated reading.
The working web prototype brings coin casting and conversation together.
Small glass bottles are arranged on a table in blue light, ready to hold printed readings.
A printed reading becomes a small object to take away.

Reflection

Designing the space around AI.

Printed Fate brings conversational design, visual programming, and fabrication into one experience. The AI response sits within a larger sequence of choices: what someone asks, how they participate, and when they choose to open the result.

The project explores how ritual and physical form can invite personal reflection. Its outcome is an interactive prototype and installation, with room to further study how people interpret and return to their readings.